metaplex VS solana-web3.js

What blockchain would offer the best pre-built libraries and out of the box support to get a marketplace up and running quickly? Probably solana is my bet, based on libraries like this --> https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/metaplex

The use of the candy machine smart contract is very low cost though; it just takes some on-chain rent for data storage until the end of the mint, and you'll probably want to pay arweave storage fees in SOL, so that the NFTs themselves have adequate longevity. But when it comes down to the minting website, it's open source software that's free to use. Look for the candy-machine-ui in Metaplex's offering. If you have JavaScript experience, it's pretty straightforward to integrate into your project website.

Did you lookin git? https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/metaplex

To upload the pngs to Solana we are going to use Metaplex, the protocol that is defining the NFT standard for the network. Go to Github and clone https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/metaplex

You can deploy smart contracts if you want, but it is highly recommended to use Metaplex (Docs here) since they already deployed the infrastructure and is currently the popular NFT standard.

found this open ticket https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/metaplex/issues/520

this should be the one you're referring to: https://metaplex.com

In practice, no one really works with direct JSON-RPC requests like this (although you certainly can!). Most developers prefer working with RPC clients. The most commonly used one is the Solana Web3 JS library, which can be found here.

All Solana invocations must be done though the RPC, which is typically handled by Solana web3js. Unless you are handy with this library, you won’t be able to execute your smart contracts.

solana/web3.js - A Solana version of web3.js that seems to work pretty well, but the documentation was almost unusable for me

As much as I don’t really think you SHOULD do this, I would use the JavaScript api

As others have said, they use Solana's JSON RPC to interact with the blockchain, in Solscan's case it's mostly fetching the data. For JavaScript we have an official SDK: @solana/web3.js

https://github.com/solana-labs/solana-web3.js

Essentially what it comes down to is a user has a wallet, that is typically a web wallet via extension, but you can of course use hardware wallets if you'd like, however those do require you to own one, so if you just want to play around with the ecosystem, these extensions are the easiest to use. These above projects are javascript APIs that allow for interacting with wallets and onchain programs.

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This library is pretty good https://solana-labs.github.io/solana-web3.js

A website that is a year old (https://morioh.com/p/720daf27c8c8) gave this address: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana-web3.js/releases/download/v0.0.6/solanaWeb3.min.js